360 Total Security - English

And you are sure that is all processes since IS is showing five running processes totalling 32.

 

This is what Task Manager shows. I've expanded where shown. I can't find anything else in the whole list of processes.

 

It seems TS should use more (because of the extra bits) but it compares quite well to IS. I keep looking to make sure I haven't missed anything but don't think I have.

 

TS gets optimized every 2-3 weeks give or take. IS has been stale for the past year.

 

Memory usage should increase drastically with BD+AV, especially on on-demand scan, on balanced it should go quite low and very small usage footprint.

Here's my stats:

http://i62.tinypic.com/2qavig9.jpg
Kindly ignore 360WangPan.exe [Qihoo sync for cloud disk], explorer.exe, cmd.exe and smss.exe, they are not related to TS
This is on Security profile, running 6.0.0.1086

 

The total of the memory figures shown in Windows 8.1 Task Manager has increased to 43.7Mb. Quite a jump from yesterday. Perhaps the low total was only because version 6 (beta) hadn't been installed for very long?

 

If you're not utilizing BD/AV engines [Security profile], that's OK'ish, give or take 10's of megs....

 

Is anyone using 360TS alongside other AV? It seems to be possible according to their changelogs:
http://www.360totalsecurity.com/en/version.html
Version 5.2.0.1074 -
1.Improved performance when installed with other anti-virus software

 

How many of you out there is using 360 Total Security with all engines enabled?

Just curious...

 

I think that the default setting (balanced) is enough for normal use.
Add an other AV alongside 360 TS is not a good idea in my opinion.

 

how do you turn off 360 checking for system updates?

 

Only took a year for them to make a version which protects standard accounts.

 

So, it can function as a Companion Antivirus as well? I have heard it was possible to do that once.

 

Why would anyone need to run 2 antiviruses or even a "companion". Just enable Bitdefender and Avira from within 360.

 

You get a much higher chance of catching a virus in case Bitdefender and Avira can't detect it. No Antivirus has 100% detection after all.

 

You are 100% incorrect if you are speaking of using 2 antiviruses together. 360 is an antiviruses that combines engines together. It was designed to do this. But if you are using 360 and add something like Avast to it then that is wrong. 2 antiviruses together will actually make you more prone to infections cause both of them will be fighting over the same malware. Then missing it completely. If anyone needs 2 real time antiviruses then they better rethink their surfing habits.

 

I'm not the one that is saying that you should use it with another Antivirus. However changelogs implies this to be possible.

Version 5.2.0.1074 -
1.Improved performance when installed with other anti-virus software

I don't know if it is actually possible cause I haven't used it. Simply that it seems to imply it.

 

That is not true. If 360 is compatible with the other antivirus software then both will work just as they should. But personally, I'm happy to stick with one antivirus (sometimes none).

 

I've been running Webroot alongside 360TS for about a week now and my system seems to be running pretty smooth.

 

Somehow this forum email notifications keep ending up into my AOL email spam folder [even after each and every time i put it into not a spam category], so I missed this.

As for the companion antivirus question, this should be interesting.

I've never done it [except for comodo combo], but what'd I recommend is the following:

1: Make both antivirus trusted [in case one does not like the other and start eating each other]
2: Disable BD/AV on TS, so that there's no taxing on the system. If you have a rather powerful machine, fire away, but don't complain back when you have 6 antiviruses enabled [repair engine counted in]
3: If that particular AV has a firewall, allow TS to contact home to have cloud/update protection
4: Be careful not to disable AV during one click checkup, just in care, manually review each setting.

All this would be MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more easier if TS sandbox was utilized. Or, rather, if that wasn't enough, well then, fire up virtualbox with linux mint and do your malware thing

 

Back to the resources question it has been my experience with both TS and IS that it is pretty much Bitdefender that catches most of the viruses I test. the default Qihoo engine just tends to flag false negatives so, in my opinion, running TS or IS without Bitdefender active is like not having an AV at all.

Oh and as to why not to run two separate AV at once they will both try and scan every file as you open it and they will both be constantly trying to delete each others quarantine folders.

 

http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php?chart=chart2&year=2014&month=12&sort=1&zoom=3

AV Comparatives real world test AUG-NOV 2014.

http://overpic.net/viewer.php?file=x4ppdm3mwb1p450mkscxu.jpg

Qihoo: 99.6%

 

Yes, but they tested 360IS, not 360TS.

 

the is version that they have tested have the same engines like the englisch ts version. So the detection rate would be the same.